Esther Ham reports in from the Dutch side of the corridor (and from her magical garden): “2019 was supposed to be an easy year, after a very busy 2018, but it has been busy anyway. The summer was very busy as I offered the entire second year of Dutch in the months of June and July. Online. Every day the students and I would meet online twice, discuss the texts and assignments of that day. Most materials were already online, but still a lot of work had to be done anyway, more than I anticipated actually. So, busy, busy, busy. I only had time to go back to the Netherlands for 10 days and eat my yearly herring early May. And now, time is really flying and I am already in the middle of planning the summer class of 2020 in The Hague, with another group of students from the Honors College. Lucky enough, I have assistance: Cynthia Vaona, helping me as a teaching assistant with the online classes, through a grant from EURO, and in The Hague, I will have a teaching intern to help me out not only with the teaching, but especially with all the excursions we are planning. What else? I had a lot of work in the garden, as always. From leeks, to Egyptian walking onions to raspberries and (for the first time!) homegrown figs. Who knows, I might turn into a farmer! Maybe my next career ….?”
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